Andy Ratcliffe

FOR 20 YEARS LITTLE WHITE GIRLS WERE GANGED RAPED IN OLDHAM BY PAKISTANI MEN. THE COUNCIL PUT THE GIRLS MOST AT RISK UNDER ONE ROOF WHILST THE MEN DROVE WAITING FOR THEM TO COME OUT. Not satisfied with opening a child brothel, the council gave a taxi licence to a man who had abducted and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old. Meanwhile, the police left the leader of the Rochdale rape gang to roam free whilst the council continued to pay him and continued allowing him access to children. Andy Burnham's Assurance Review recorded all of it and told Oldham there had been no cover-up. His Labour Party colleagues used his review to attempt to close down the campaign for a statutory inquiry. Between 2019 to January 2025 Burnham stood by a review that could not compel a witness, had not interviewed a single survivor, and had not even seen the police files. He described the sham as 'thorough'. Only under extraordinary public pressure did he back an inquiry with the power his own review never had. Even then, his support was only for something 'limited'. In June 2025, six years after we began our campaign, the government conceded the National Statutory Inquiry. Oldham was the first town named for it. The National Inquiry has the power to compel Prime Minister Andy Burnham. It must use it and force him to testify. Anything less than this is a continuation of the cover up. Andy Burnham called his review 'thorough'. His own police force had hidden its files from it, and he knew that when he said it. He must stand in front of the National Inquiry and explain why. He must say who approved Operation Hexagon, and why a police force under his authority was sent after the people exposing the rape of children instead of the men raping them. He must tell the people of this country why his reviewers did not contact or interview a single survivor of Oldham's rape gangs. A review of the gang rape of children in a town was published without one of those children being asked what happened to her. And above all, he must answer why he fought a statutory inquiry for six years, and only backed one when he had no choice left. Left to their own devices, Burnham will be allowed to hide away from what he did. Which is why it is left to us. We must not stop until the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is forced to sit in that witness chair and testify for what he did. Raja Miah MBE _________ You know what we are up against. The mainstream media will not touch my work. Institutions I investigate do not volunteer their records. Politicians do not suddenly decide to hold themselves to account. And yet, despite every attempt to stop us, we forced the national inquiry. We did that because enough ordinary people refused to go away. But getting the inquiry was never the end of this campaign. In many ways it was only the beginning. Now we have to watch where it goes, what it investigates, which places it avoids, which witnesses it calls, which records it obtains and whether the same institutions that failed these children are allowed to control the story again. Nobody else is going to do that work for us. And I cannot do it indefinitely working on my own. That is why I keep talking about 50,000 committed subscribers. It is not a vanity number. I did not pluck it out of the air. With fifty thousand people with me means when we uncover something important, it does not depend on a newspaper editor, a television producer or an algorithm deciding whether you are allowed to see it. It gives us reach they cannot easily shut down. But there is another reason. I need to build a proper backroom operation around this work. At the moment I am investigating, researching, writing, publishing, producing the videos, running the newsletter, dealing with the technology and then starting again. It is unsustainable. I need people behind me who can take care of the technical and production work so that I can spend my time doing the thing I do best. That is why we have been pushing so hard for new paid subscribers. 🔴 SIGN UP HERE 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk If you read my work and want it to continue, I need your help. Sign up for free. There are no paywalls to access any of my work. If you can afford the £3 a month or £30 for the year, please become a paid subscriber. We forced the inquiry. Now we need the numbers to make sure they cannot control what happens next. Unfortunately, we are reaching the end of the road where I can continue working this way. The paid subscriptions have stalled. Worse, tens of thousands of people are now reading these articles without even joining the free mailing list. The audience is growing, but the number of people actually standing behind the work is not growing with it. Over a million people engaged in my content this week. Only a small fraction followed up with a subscription to my newsletter This is becoming impossible to sustain. 🔴 SIGN UP HERE 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk Raja Miah MBE